Research Proposals

Research into the efficacy of Spirit Release Therapy can be conducted in two ways, (A) by the collection and recording of routine data in the day to day activities of consultations and interventions, and (B) by conducting clinical trials under strictly controlled conditions with specific groups.

The objective of Group A research is to integrate clinical practice with research in order to identify best practice according to the principles of evidence-based medicine. It therefore has an educational imperative.

Research protocols under group A can be conducted by individual therapist/practitioners and clinics. Anyone whose task it is to heal the sick can contribute to a Group A type protocol.

Case-Study Database Quantification

It is in psychiatric and clinical psychology case histories where the subjective experience of clients (patients) suffering from all the maladies of the mind and emotions may be found and analysed. Edward Kelly suggests how case histories can be used for scientific research:

‘Cases initially studied and reported individually can be encoded according to appropriate descriptive schemes and entered into cumulative databases which, when they become sufficiently large, afford important new opportunities for quantitative study of internal patterns, predictive relationships, and so on, governing the relevant domains’ (Kelly, 2007b, p. 583).

It may be anticipated that a database of case studies, that includes the coded experience of “trance possession” would include cases where possession is reported according to a belief in possession, but a successful remedy reveals that the belief was false. Conversely, data could reveal instances where there was no belief in possession at all and yet a successful intervention reveals a case of genuine spirit possession. It is these cases that would provide the most valuable information on the experience rather than the belief if such cases could be reported. This proposition requires a more open-minded approach, and would demand that observers and therapists suspend their own disbelief, and simply allow the patient to explore, discover and report exactly what it is that they are experiencing.
Psychiatrist Shakuntala Modi (2000) sets the standard by offering her analysis of patients who had presented a wide variety of emotional, mental, behavioural and physical problems. Analysis of 100 patients revealed results that were surprising. 92 of the 100 were found to have earthbound spirits attached to them, 80 patients had more than one, 50 patients had spirits of relatives and 77 patients had spirits that were described by Modi as “demonic” (ibid, p. 7). Modi’s analysis also revealed that 80% of primary (acute) symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks and psychotic symptoms, and 30% of secondary (chronic) symptoms such as arthritis, sinusitis, back pain and headaches are caused by spirits, while 20% of primary symptoms and 70% of secondary symptoms were caused by past-life traumas (ibid, p.7).
Modi reveals that contrary to her training as a medical psychiatrist and her non-belief in a spirit world, the experiences of her patients and her own experiences that were led by her patients, enabled her to accept the plausibility of an alternate reality and the ontology of spirit entities. I cite Modi’s findings in order to illustrate the point that accurate case records can be used to provide useful descriptive statistics, and whether the patient or the therapist has a belief in an afterlife or not, the data can be left to speak for itself.

Group A clinical intervention research protocol

Below is an initial draft of a Group A protocol that could be applied by any independent therapist or clinic. This protocol is for the guidance of spirit release practitioners, but any other form of investigation; i.e. psychiatric, psychological, including religious, shamanic, and any other form of investigation could apply the same protocol.

Attached is a pdf file of a form that needs to be in front of you when interviewing a client for the first time, whether on the telephone or face to face.

It is strongly recommended that all stages of the consultation and investigation be video recorded in order for them to be transcribed into text for the identification of themes and variables that can later be categorised for statistical analysis.

Video and audio recording of consultations are recommended as a routine procedure, both as a source of scientific data and for the protection and welfare of the client and the therapist should any claim be made by either side for inappropriate behaviour or the contravention of professional and ethical standards. Clients need to be made aware of this routine procedure and asked to sign a consent form as an essential formality prior to any intervention.
Each case file record should contain a connection between confidential personal information and a link with the anonymous case file for peer scrutiny, epidemiological studies, etc. Data for statistical analysis needs to include basic demographic data and the origin of the consultation.

A case file should comprise of four essential sections:

Part A gives demographic data and the source of the referral.

Part A Initial Referral Request

Initial Referral Request

Your Name:*

First

Last

Your E-mail address*

Patient's full name*

Patient's location (City/State)*

Patient's gender*

Male

Female

Transgender

Patient's age

Patient's Ethnicity*

Patient's religion*

None

Christian

Moslem

Jewish

Buddhist

Hindu

Other

Medical diagnosis (if any)

Briefly state the nature of the problem*

Part B is designed to record pre-intervention ‘base-line’ data on the symptomatology and reasons for the consultation and represents the ‘primary investigation’ applied in the case. This should include the initial investigation by any medical, religious and/or paranormal investigators. Anyone who is experiencing any form of disturbing psychic or spiritual phenomena are advised to contact their local parish priest or spiritual minister who will present their case to the specialist spiritual investigation team which is comprised of deliverance ministers, psychiatrists and psychic investigators who will decide a course of action.
In this section it is to be noted which psychiatric and psychometric instruments were used for the collection of base-line data on the mental, emotional, physical and behavioural condition and subjective experience of the patient/client.

Notes transcribed from audio-visual recording devices are to be attached as appendices.

Part C is a report on the type, details and activity of the ‘intervention’ that was actually used in a successful resolution to the presenting problem. The successful intervention would be the result of a correct diagnosis and an appropriate course of action. Cases that are presented as possible spirit interference could turn out to be non-spiritual mental or emotional disturbance, and, conversely, cases that me be interpreted as mental illness could turn out to be a form of spiritual emergency or spirit interference.

Appropriate interventions could therefore include any of the following:

Part D is a record of the findings, the therapeutic ‘outcome’, follow-ups and any ongoing therapy. If psychometric instruments, audio or visual recordings are used in repeated measures for ‘before and after’ comparisons then these are to be attached as appendices.
Findings can be categorised by aetiology typology which may include the type of spirit entity encountered, when it first attached to the client, what its objective was and under what circumstances it first attached to the client.
Type of entity may include, and not be exclusive to one type only: earthbound, DFE, elemental, alien, autogenic (self-created) thought-form, curse, unresolved past-life issue. A full catalogue of spirit types and their possible origins may be found in Sue Allen’s Spirit Release: A practical handbook (Allen, 2007).

If you are interested in participating in a Group A research programme please feel free to make contact by using the contact form below. Alternatively please make a comment or suggestion at the foot of this page.

Group B Clinical Trials Under Controlled Conditions

Experiences whilst working in the United States led to the idea of a research project to test the hypothesis that spirit entities are responsible for many cases of domestic abuse and sex crimes. Should this hypothesis be supported then the rehabilitation of convicted felons would be shown in higher success rates and lower recidivism. Download a pdf file

Here is a protocol that originated in a conference paper presented at Bangor University in 2008. A copy of the original paper is available in PDF here – Evil mad or possessed.

The protocol for this research project is Chapter Fifteen of The Science of Spirit Possession, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014).

Psychiatry assumes that auditory hallucinations are a symptom of mental illness. However, SRT practitioners encounter patients who hear voices that claim to be spirits of the deceased or non-human dark force entities (DFEs) that could be described as demonic in religious terminology. This research project aims to test this hypothesis under controlled conditions and provide evidence that can validate remote (at a distance) interventions. Funding is being applied for and the project protocol is under development. However, collaboration is needed with an accredited research institution such as a medical school or psychiatry institution in order to complete the application. See the developing protocol here.

3. The Efficacy of Remote Methods in the Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System

A research project to test the efficacy of remote methods in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system would be dependent on the success of a controlled experiment along the lines of the following procedure to test the efficacy of telepathic diagnosis. For an example of a remote diagnostic and treatment procedure go to the case studies page.

4. Telepathic Diagnosis

The procedure for using telepathy to diagnose medical and psychiatric conditions from a distance has been initiated and is now an ongoing project.If you are interested in participating in this project either as a subject who has already been given a medical diagnosis, or as a clairvoyant scanner then please enter your contact details and express your interest in the form below.

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None of the above proposals have yet received funding. This means that the current research is conducted without financial resources and all travel and administrative costs are out-of-pocket. If you would like to contribute to these costs then your donation will be gratefully received. In addition to personal donations, corporate sponsorship is encouraged and invited.

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None of the research projects on this site have yet received funding. This means that the current research is conducted without financial resources and all travel and administrative costs are out-of-pocket. If you would like to contribute to these costs then your donation will be gratefully received. In addition to personal donations, corporate sponsorship is encouraged and invited.